Wednesday, August 10, 2011

What would be the nucleotide sequence of the RNA that is transcribed from DNA with a nucleotide sequence of...

"Ribonucleic acids are also made up of four differant monomers, but the nucleotides differ from those of DNA. In RNA the nucleotides are termed ribonucleotides (vs. deoxyriboneucleotides). They contain ribose rather then deoxyribose, and instead of the base thymine, RNA uses the base uracil (U). The other three bases are the same. Although RNA is generally single stranded, complementary hydrogen bonding between ribonucleotides can take place. These bonds play important roles in determining the shapes of some RNA molecues and in ociations between RNA molecules during protein synthesis. During the DNA directed synthesis of RNA, complemenatry base pairing also takes place between ribonucleotides and the bases of DNA. In RNA, guanine and cytosine pair (GC), as in DNA, but adenine pairs with uracil (AU). Adenine in an RNA strand can pair with either uracil (in another RNA strand) or with thymine (in a DNA strand)."

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